Modulation of neuronal responses in macaque primary visual cortex in a memory task

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2547-2557

  Vidyasagar, Trichur R ^a,c   Pigarev, Ivan N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Delayed match to sample; Electrophysiology; Feedback; Primate; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34247280118     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05483.x     Document Type: Article

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